Speaking to MailOnline about his new role, the 30-year-old told how proud his wife is of him.

“Of course she’s always proud of everything I do, and I’m always proud of everything she does,” he said.

“She probably feels the same way I do, like ‘Wow what an opportunity’. She’s touched by it.”

Discussing how they will continue to make their marriage work despite the distance between them, he said: “I think any husband and wife, if one’s working away then one will visit the other that’s a given.”

Mark Wright relaxes in Mallorca with his wife Michelle Keegan

The couple, who have been married since 2015, have endured long spells apart over the last few months.

Michelle has been filming BBC drama Our Girl in South Africa, while Mark has been working in LA as well as doing regular DJ gigs in Mallorca, Spain and Ibiza.